Mudville

I loved every minute of it

You wont be able to put it down

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Awesome book

My 12 year old son loved this book about baseball. He says the entire book is great.

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Inventive sports story for young readers and young at heart

Kurtis Scaletta's MUDVILLE is heartwarming and original. Young baseball enthusiast Roy's passion for the game is infectious and will have you craving hotdogs and pitcher's duels, even if you don't eat, drink, and breathe America's National past-time. The author's take on defining moments will have you looking at your own life in a different way. I can't wait to discuss with my fourth-grade son.

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engaging story even if you're not a baseball fan

This is an engaging story that features a cast of quirky, likable characters. Even if you're not a baseball fan, you will like these people enough to want to enter their lives and hear their story.

interesting book about baseball

-The last baseball game in Moundville was over 22 years ago, well before 12-year-old Roy was born. The game against archrival Sinister Bend was never completed because of a twenty-two year rain delay! Then one day, the rain just stops. The sun came out and Moundville was "Mudville" no longer. Roy and his newly adopted brother, Sturgis, decide to restore the old baseball field and just have fun practicing. Soon, other boys and even two girls join them, and a new Moundville team is born. Roy loves being the coach and catcher. Sturgis ends up being quite the pitcher. Team member Rita throws a screwball that nobody can touch, so the team has back up for Sturgis. Rumor has it that there's a new Sinister Bend team, too.
The two teams schedule a game and tension held back for 22 years by the adult populace is ready to burst in anticipation of this rematch.

The big day arrives and both teams are out for blood. Moundville has never won against Sinister Bend because of the anger and supposed curse of a young Dakota boy, Ptan Teca, and his father, Ptan Tanka, or so the legend goes. Ptan Teca was a great athlete way back when and could beat the white colonists at their own game - baseball. Was he the one who "punished" Moundville with the 22 years of rain? What would be next? You will just have to read this fantastic book to see who won the game, to immerse yourself in the game of baseball and the weird weather surrounding Moundville.

I LOVED this book! It made me laugh, cry, guffaw, howl, and be drawn totally into the weird world Author Kurtis Scaletta created and have it feel "normal". Most of all, I "felt" every pitch, catch, fly ball, etc., and remembered all the nuances of living and breathing baseball like I did when I was that age, also! Bravo, Kurtis, for a terrific job well done! Wohoooooooo!
BY: Gayle Jacobson-Huset Stories for Children Magazine

Jon Pendergrass

I am a 15 year old male. This book would be good for 7th graders. I enjoyed the book because I am a huge fan of baseball. The story begins with you meeting Roy at his summer baseball camp at a local university. He gets home he finds out that he has a new roommate. His father told him that the boy was from a foster home that his father had signed up for. The town in which they live, Moundville, has been going through a 22 year span of rain everyday. The new roommate has never played baseball before. One day, about a week after he moved in, the rain stopped. After the rain stopped, Roy and Sturgis,the new roommate, started throwing the ball back and forth, and Roy thought he would be a good pitcher. Since the town as not had a dry day in a while, the kids in the town decided to start a new baseball team. Roy was elected captain. Everyone in the town was really excited that they had a team again, because before the rain started every 4th of July the Moundville team would play against their rivals, the Sinister Bend team. But they can not do that anymore because the place where Sinister Bend used to be is now completely distroyed from the rain. The team asks the local private high school to play a game against them. To find out more about Roy, Strugis, and Moundvill, you will have to read the novel for yourself, and believe me, it's worth it!

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